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"A Lay Sermon by a Young Lady"

"A Lay Sermon by a Young Lady," a Yom Kippur sermon, Part 1 of 3

The text of a sermon given by Ray Frank on the eve of Yom Kippur.

Part 2 and part 3.

A Yom Kippur sermon by Ray Frank, 1890

This sermon was published in the American Hebrew (October 1890).

Courtesy of Klau Library, Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion

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Jewish Women's Archive. ""A Lay Sermon by a Young Lady"." (Viewed on November 22, 2025) <https://qa.jwa.org/discover/throughtheyear/september/newwords/ray-frank-sermon>.